GVW is GROSS vehicle weight, which is the max you can load into it,
including the vehicle itself.  I believe that they are all in the range
of 5600 lbs or so.  The unladen vehicle would be considerably under
that.

I use ramps all the time, BTW.

Karl Wolz

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of David Maurio
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 9:44 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: GVW of Vanagon?

What is the gross vehicle weight of an 85 Westy with no kitchen
(Weekender,
Wolfsburg?)  The ramps I bought are 6000lb ramps, which I figured would
be
good enough to hold up the front of the van, but I'm getting lots of
warning
emails about using ramps under the Westy...

Thanks,
--
David /NJ
85 Wolfsburg Westy "Beatrix"
90 Fox "Sampson"
http://home.comcast.net/~maurio11/